Giovanni Maria Boccardo
Giovanni Maria Boccardo (20 November 1848 - 30 December 1913) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and the founder of the Poor Daughters of Saint Cajetan. Boccardo tended to victims of a cholera epidemic in 1884 and was forced to resign all positions in his parish in 1911 due to illness that confined him to his bed. He was the elder brother of Blessed Luigi Boccardo.
He was beatified in 1998 on the occasion of the pastoral visit of Pope John Paul II to Turin.
Patron saint of Poor Daughters of Saint Cajetan; Cancer; Against cancer
In the Martyrology
- December 30 Blessed Giovanni Maria Boccardo, priest, founder of the Poor Daughters of Saint Cajetan